Button attachment for suspender-ends.



No. 680,429. T Pfitented Aug. I3, 1901. n. T. CLARKE.

BUTTON ATTACHMENT FOB SUSPENDER ENDS.

(Application filed Jan. 2, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCEQ RICHARD T. CLARKE, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

BUTTON ATTACHMENT FOR SUSPENDER-ENDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,429, dated August13, 1901.

Application filed January 2, 1901. Serial No. 41,870. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD T. CLARKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at O0- lumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Button Attachmentsfor Suspender-Ends, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the improvement of Suspender-ends, and theobjects of myinvention are to provide an improved button attachment forthe terminal straps or ends of suspenders of such construction as tofacilitate the ready connection of buttons with the buttonhole-tabs ofsaid suspender-ends and to so construct said button attachment as toimpart a desired rigidity to the buttonhole-tab and at the same timeadmit of said button and its supporting-plate being readily disconnectedwhen desired from the suspenderend. These objects I accomplish in themannerillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is aView in perspective of the lower portion of one of the main straps ofsuspenders with the suspender-ends or terminal straps dependingtherefrom, the latter being provided with my button attachment; and Fig.2 is a detail view in perspective of the button and itssupporting-plate.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout both views.

In carrying out my invention I employ an oblong plate 1, which ispreferably of metal,

although the same may be produced of any suitable and sufficiently rigidmaterial. In forming the plate 1 I provide one end thereof on one sidewith an outwardly-projectin g button, of which 2 represents the head,and 3 the shank or neck portion. This end of the plate 1 on which thebutton is provided is preferably rounded to conform to the usualcorresponding rounded end of the buttonholetab of the Suspender-end. Atsuitable locations in the plate 1 I form on opposite sides of the centerof the length thereof transverse slotted openings 4, the material cut orstamped from the plate to form said openings being turned upward oroutward at the inner ends of each of said openings, resulting in theproduction of projecting clampingtongues 5. These plates 1 are adaptedin the mannerhereinafter described to be connected with the usualbuttonhole-tabs 6 of snspender terminal straps7. In producing thisconnection the head and shank of the button are inserted through theouter end of the buttonhole 8 from the rear side of the tab 6, while theoutwardly-projecting clam ping-tongues 5 are similarly inserted throughthe inner portion of the buttonhole. This being accomplished, theclamping-tongues are pressed in opposite directions against the outerface of the tab 6, thus clamping the plate 1 into close connection withthe rear side of said tab and retaining the button projecting from thetab in the manner indicated in the drawings.

From this construction and operation it will be seen that any ordinarysuspender-end having a buttonhole therein may be readily provided with aprojecting button, which button may be adapted to engage a buttonhole ina trousers-button or a suitable loop or other catch connected with thetrousers-band.

It is obvious that the herein described method of providing theSuspender-ends with projecting buttons will be particularly adapted forengaging the ends of suspenders with the trousers in cases where it isdesirable to wear the suspenders beneath the outer shirt, in which casethe button is inserted into the trousers-buttonhole or receiving-loopfrom the inner side of the trousers-band, the goods of the shirt beingforced by the head of the button into said buttonreceiving device. I donot, however, desire to limit my invention to the use above described,and therefore confine myself, as hereinafter set forth in the claim, tothe means whereby the suspenderthe combination with asuspendertei'zninal adapted to be clamped downward against the straphaving a buttonhole therein, of a plate Suspender-end, substantially asspecified. 1 having a button projecting from one face thereof and havingclamping-tongues5 also RICHARD CLARKE 5 projecting therefrom, saidclamping-tongues In presence ofand button-head adapted to be inserted A.L. PHELPS,

through said bnttonhole and said tongues W. L. MORRQW.

